Ravelry

How can you possibly call Ravelry a place for all when you have clearly made it a place of hatred, & bigotry, and you only include those that agree with your Political stance? I have NEVER brought politics into anything crochet related. Because it's not the place for it. Banning hate speech is one thing, labeling a whole group of people on some bad apples is utter nonsense. You should remove all politics or leave in all politics. Why do you think this is ok? This is a Hate filled, bigoted group of entitled thinking jerks. I was a member for many years. That has definitely changed.

I did a little digging and find that less than 650,000 of their purported 8 million users have avatars. Furthermore... if you look at the new users as far back as I could go, they are all just a name. No avatar, no favorites, no projects. In short. Not people using the site. Lastly, my friend list has been cut in half and, of those left, every page has multiple users with no profile pic which tells me they no longer use the site due to the hatred and prejudice they have encountered. And... for the record... I have been a member of Ravelry since long before they hit 500,000 users. So very sad to watch the demise of this community but hatred and prejudice never win...

I used this site beginning in 2008 to keep track of all of my knitting projects, purchase patterns, research yarns, and store all files of my craft. I did not participate in discussion forums. The Forbes, who own this site, have decided to be inclusive by being uninclusive. If you support our President, they label you as a white supremacist, which I am most definitely not. They allow patterns and talk denigrating our President but none in support of him. They might as well say they are anti-USA and against God. I love the USA and God too much to participate in a site operated by such narrow mindedness.

As a long time member of Ravelry I have become dismayed by their lack of action regarding a certain member. This member is allowed to totally ignore community standards and post project pages demeaning other members. Ravelry administration's lack of action is disheartening to say the least. Their solution to the problem is to block those that complain from seeing the member's page, while allowing her to view their pages, and continue to make vicious remarks. I guess to Ravelry it really is all about the money. I no longer use Ravelry as a source to purchase patterns, and inform the designer's and advertisers as to my reason why. If I miss out on a pattern here or there so be it. I can not support a company that condones cyber bullying, and as soon as possible will be deleting my account.

I was with Ravelry since 2008, loved it. No more, so much vitriol, shoving their political opinions in your face, self righteous indignation, politics, politics, politics... I have great sources to get politics and news from. What does it matter what everyone thinks, can't we just enjoy the beauty of fiber arts and be creative together and leave people to form their own opinions? Besides, lovecrafts ACTUALLY does something to better the world, love their fundraising and compassionate outreach to communities in need around the world, take that ravelry.

I joined this craft site to learn to knit probably 3 years ago, they came out with a policy that said if we support our President we are white supremists. They ban anything CHRISTIAN but allow vulgar trump products. They said we can stay if we remain silent. I posted a photo of there policy, don't take my word for it read it. I live in America, not North Korea.

Disappointed to see Ravelry management seems to be encouraging intense political bashing. I never noticed the mean-spirited name-calling and hate baiting during the Obama administration, but as soon as Trump was elected, this "island of fiber fun" has gone off the rails into a dumping ground of ego and "tribal" bashing. One look at Mama Ravelry's page and you'll see why. I guess if you found a successful site, like Ravelry, you can think however you like, dress however you like, talk however you like, support whoever you like, and do whatever you like, right? But karma does have a way of catching up with all of us. Even you.

I was a member for four years. In solidarity to fiber artists everywhere I had to disassociate from Ravelry. Ravelry professes to include ALL but does not practice their own stated policy, Ravelry stereotypes people as "white supremacist" carte blanche. Interestingly, Ravelry even called BIPOC people "white supremacist." Ravelry.com is the penultimate in hypocrisy and duplicity. Basically Ravelry.com practices everything they self profess to stand against.

I joined Ravelry in their beginning years when they were all about the fiber arts and enjoyed my years of fellowship with others who were like-minded. They evolved into a hate mongering, trolling site that excluded anyone who did not agree with the politics of the left. That kind of behavior started several years ago-not just in recent months! I've removed my account and I'm glad I no longer belong to such a hate filled, narrow minded group!

Ravelry is the greatest site for knitters and crochets hands down. You can find great groups on a variety of topics, scour their pattern library full of free and for purchase patterns by great designers who have their own groups so that their fans can interconnect with each other and share tips and advice as well as find out where they may have gone wrong. This is fabulous and wish I had found out about Ravelry when they opened up.